Posts Tagged ‘ressurection’

At funerals, there is a lot of talk about the past. “Do you remember the time Dad took us to the lake?” “Bob just loved to create beauty with his scroll saw.” “I just wish we had a chance to talk about that day and what was said.” At funerals, there is often a lot […]

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Certain numbers have instant recognizable biblical credibility. 12, 40, 7, 10. Earlier today I created an image crafted with scriptural words about baptism. One of the words I included was simply “Eight.” Why eight? Well the simple answer is this verse: 1 Peter 3:20-22 …God’s patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark […]

Last Sunday we read: Acts 17:17-22 So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who happened to be there. Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also conversed with him. And some said, "What does this babbler wish to say?" Others said, […]

I wrote this after seeing a Facebook post where someone had entered a contest where they were asked to write about their Easter tradition. Every year I gather with the dead inside a building shaped like a tomb. Our eyes are wet with grief for our beloved is dead. Our grief has languished for days. […]

Tomorrow, we start holy week. And as Christians following the church year, we are asked to do something that I doubt comes natural to hardly any of us any more. We are invited to focus in on the Passion and Resurrection of our Lord for a week. Yes, we people who digest everything in 30 […]

How do you do it? How do most do it: Grandpa is in heaven. He is happy now. This says too little and is not how the bible speaks about death. How should we do it: 1. Speak of the practical reality of death. The one who died will no longer be at the house. […]

“That Jones shall worship the god within him turns out ultimately to means that Jones shall worship Jones. Let Jones worship the sun or moon, anything rather than the inner light; Let Jones worship cats or crocodiles, if he can find any in his street, but not the god within. Christianity came into the world […]

What words? These words: 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up […]

At Winston Churchill’s funeral he arranged for something a bit unusual. Most of us are used to hearing taps at the close of the funeral services of veterans. If fact there is a national organization dedicated solely to making sure that taps is played at every veterans funeral. But at Churchill’s funeral, the typical playing […]